Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, in general, rule out ordination of married men to the episcopate, and marriage after priestly ordination. Throughout the Catholic Church, East as well as West, a priest may not marry. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a married priest is one who married before being ordained.
In some Christian churches, such as the western and some eastern sections of the Catholic Church, priests and bishops must as a rule be unmarried men. In others, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the churches of Oriental Orthodoxy and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests, but may not remarry if their wife dies, and celibacy is required ...
In general, Eastern Catholic Churches have always allowed ordination of married men as priests and deacons. Within the lands of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the second largest Eastern Catholic Church, priests' children often became priests and married within their social group, establishing a tightly knit hereditary caste. [14]
Priests are allowed to marry in the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church as well as in the Orthodox, Protestant and Anglican Churches. Opponents of a married priesthood say celibacy allows a priest ...
The Catholic church must look into the possibility of allowing married men to become ordained priests, according to a new interview with Pope Francis.
The teaching of the Catholic Church is that a married couple commits themselves totally to one another until death. [115] The vows they make to each other in the wedding rite are a commitment "til death do us part". [116] After the death of one, the other is free to marry again or to remain single. Some choose to become priests or religious.
Actor plays a priest during an election for the pope in the forthcoming film ‘Conclave’ Stanley Tucci says church would improve if priests were allowed to marry: ‘It would change everything ...
As of 2013, a minority in the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests support ordaining women to the priesthood and a majority favour allowing woman deacons. [103] In 2014, the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland stated that the Catholic Church must ordain women and allow priests to marry in order to survive. [104]